Yun Niang and Ni Niang knelt on the ground, "The folk girl Yun Niang (Ni Niang) knocked to see the Queen Mother"

After the canonization ceremony in Yuefu, Zhu Qiming became a dignified prince. Xu Gong, Niu San, and Jiang Yi didn't get the news, so they didn't come to the door to congratulate, only Yun Niang and Ni Niang were well-informed, and rushed to Yuefu to congratulate, Zhu Qiming personally welcomed them into the house, and after greeting them, they asked about the old things that Yuefu and Weifu were wronged in, Yun Niang and Ni Niang didn't know about it, but they said they could secretly inquire about it. Zhu Qiming was worried that the two of them would be in danger of their lives, so he instructed them to think in the long run, not to be in a hurry, and led them to Qingning Palace to meet the Empress Dowager, in order to win a talisman for the two.

At this moment, Yun Niang has taken off her mask and shown her true face like Ni Niang.

Seeing the appearance of the two daughters, and the unique charm of the world, the queen mother's cloudy eyes gradually brightened, and she was a little puzzled, whether the two of them were lotus flowers that were not stained by mud, or fairy flowers covered with vulgar dust?

"Flat, both Qi ······ Since you are the savior of King Yue, you don't have to be polite. ”

"Empress Dowager Xie."

After the two got up, the Empress Dowager looked at the two again with a warm gaze, "Look at your outfit, it is obvious that you are not married to a woman, but looking at your age, it seems that you have passed the age of marriage, why is this?" ”

"The two women are women in the rivers and lakes, so they are slightly different from other women in the world." Yun Niang hesitated.

The Empress Dowager shook her head slowly with a smile, "The women of the rivers and lakes should also have a home!" After pondering for a long time, his gaze slowly moved to the door, "There is a mysterious gang called Jinyun Pavilion in the capital, who coerces some strange women to do things for them by coercing their families. Once these women enter the hub, they will not be free for the rest of their lives, and the best ones may be able to marry merchant women in old age, and the miserable ones may evaporate from the world without knowing it, along with their families, and their bones will be gone. ”

Zhu Qiming was shocked. Although the Empress Dowager is in her twilight years, she is still as clear as a mirror, and she is not ignorant of many things, but just ignores them!

Over there, Yun Niang and Ni Niang looked at each other, hesitating and not daring to talk rashly.

The Empress Dowager smiled indifferently, "When people are old, they love to think crankily, and if they are not careful, they will talk away." You are the savior of King Yue, and the door of Qingning Palace is always open to you, so you can only come in the future, and you don't have to worry about anything. ”

Yun Niang and Ni Niang looked at each other and smiled, their hanging hearts suddenly fell to the ground, and they all bowed down and said, "Thank you Empress Dowager!" ”

Zhu Qiming was relieved and happily sent Yun Niang away. Ni Niang and the two, when they came back, they saw the Queen Mother's calm face, and suddenly felt that things were far from being as simple as he expected!

"Are they involved with the people of the Forbidden City?" The Empress Dowager said in a deep voice.

With a buzz, Zhu Qiming only felt that his brain was blank, and he finally settled down, thinking that the Empress Dowager must have been aware of the secret collusion between Fu'an Palace and Jinyun Pavilion, so he wanted to clear up the relationship between Yun Niang and Ni Niang, "The ministers dare not deceive the Empress Dowager, they may have been driven by others before, but this will never happen again in the future." ”

"I hope so!" The Empress Dowager's face softened slightly, "The emperor has looked for you?" ”

Zhu Qiming shook his head.

"That's the emperor sent someone to find you!"

Zhu Qi felt that nothing seemed to be able to escape the fiery eyes of the Empress Dowager, so he immediately cheered up his spirits, nodded and added: "Whether that person was sent by the emperor or not, the minister does not dare to jump to conclusions." ”

"Well, the emperor is almost an adult, and his heart is big, whatever the emperor wants to do, who dares to say that he is wrong? The imperial grandmother can only pretend to be deaf and dumb! However, if the emperor wants to deal with someone, you must not beat the idea of Jinyun Pavilion, and use the handle of hundreds of officials to manipulate people in Jinyun Pavilion, this is a rash move! The really clean people on the temple can be counted with two hands, the so-called pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, turning out the account of Jinyun Pavilion, it is bound to pull out the black pressure and suppress a large number of people, and the earth will shake! ”

"The minister has no such intention!"

"That's good!" The Empress Dowager looked at Zhu Qiming quietly for a while, "The emperor can't hold his breath after all, and if he wants to do it, many things will surely fall on you, and you are new to the city, and you don't know the depth of the water, so you want to ask a well-informed person to investigate, right?" You are worried about becoming a pawn. ”

Zhu Qiming breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the Empress Dowager was not an immortal after all, and he didn't know that he only wanted to find out the reason why the Yue Mansion and the Wei Mansion were wronged, and he thought that he was worried about becoming a pawn of the Son of Heaven. Who can escape the fate of the chess pieces? There are probably two types of people who don't want to be the emperor's pawns: those who live in seclusion; Or like the assistant ministers, a stumbling block to the Son of Heaven!

Zhu Qiming knows very well that if you don't be a chess piece, how can you have a chance to be a chess player! Of course, such words should never be spoken.

"The king has the king's way, the minister has the minister's way, the minister serves the king, and loyalty is the most valuable. It's just that you have to be careful, don't make a big mess, and then ask the imperial grandmother to come forward to clean up the mess, that is the emperor's mistake, and you are incompetent! The Empress Dowager left these words, and walked towards the inner room on crutches on her own, sighing on the way: "What's more, the imperial grandmother doesn't know if she will live to clean up the mess." ”

In this way, is the Empress Dowager in favor of the emperor getting rid of the constraints of the auxiliary ministers? Why is the Empress Dowager like this? Zhu Qiming stared at it, but saw the Empress Dowager stop and slowly turn around.

"Although he is a prince, he still lives in Qingning Palace, Yuefu and the Forbidden City are two worlds, living in Yuefu, and the number of times he sees the emperor every year is only a handful."

The Empress Dowager finally entered the inner room, and the main hall suddenly fell silent. Zhu Qiming stood there for a long time, closed his eyes and thought, and what he experienced in his heart was endless loneliness!

can't find others, even if it's someone like Xu Gong and Ouyang Tong, it's inconvenient for him to talk to him. At this moment, even if there are hundreds of thoughts in his heart, he can't be autonomous, and now he is a prince, in the final analysis, he is still a duckweed that is beaten by the wind and rain!

I hope that we can find out the evidence that Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong deliberately embarrassed the Yue Mansion and the Wei Mansion, and make it meaningful for them to play chess pieces!

Zhu Qiming went back to the East Pavilion and took off the prince's crown robe, changed into regular clothes, hurriedly left Qingning Palace, and hurried to Qingyuan Hall to study.

There is no scheming or scheming in the Qingyuan Palace, only a pair of young boys and girls who are growing up, and a slightly pedantic gentleman. It was the only place where he could feel carefree and relaxed.

Lu Xi probably noticed Zhu Qiming's cleverness and his own rigidity, so he just said not long ago that "you don't have to die to read, read dead books", and since then he has relaxed the scale and no longer has a strict posture.

Lu Xiyu studied very seriously, and gradually had a common language with Zhu Qiming, that is, to exchange knowledge after class, her interpretation of Confucian classics became more and more subtle, chasing after his father, and always talking highly, which made Zhu Qiming staggered. After a long time, Lu Xiyu became Zhu Qiming's little gentleman.

Lu Xiyu's eyes swept away, and there was a slight resentment in it, "All students in the world study hard, but you are always inattentive, how can you get it if you go on like this?" ”

Zhu Qiming's eyes widened in puzzlement, "I don't have to take the test to gain fame, why should I compare with the students in the world?" ”

Lu Xiyu's brain had a short circuit for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses, "That's not good!" Although he does not gain fame, he must not lose his knowledge to others. ”

That's to make me the best in the world, this is a bit difficult! Zhu Qiming muttered in his heart, but his head nodded very attentively.

Whenever this happens, Lu Xiyu will always smile with satisfaction and leave. However, when the next opportunity for after-school exchange comes again, she will regret to find that she has to repeat the same old words.

Unconsciously, Lu Xiyu seemed to have changed. Every day she would enter the palace in advance, and stop and watch at the place where Zhu Qiming practiced swords, at this time, Zhu Qiming held back his strength to perform that exquisite Jiuhua swordsmanship, when he felt that he was very good at a move, he would secretly glance at Lu Xiyu, but saw that she was staring blankly at the sporadic flying snow.

When the cold winter came, Zhu Qiming ordered someone to build a small tent there, put a chair with a seat cushion, and a stove. Lu Xiyu is not polite, every time she arrives, she will happily sit down, sitting there quietly with a stove, and she doesn't know what she is looking at or thinking.

Zhu Qiming was accustomed to the days when Lu Xiyu sat aside when he practiced swords, and although her mind seemed to fall elsewhere, he still had a very hazy and wonderful feeling in his heart.

In this way, time flies, the Forbidden City is already a land of ice and snow, and the footsteps of the New Year are getting closer and closer.

On this day, Zhu Qiming came to the martial arts field early, but he didn't see Lu Xiyu appear for a long time, he felt that his heart was empty as if something was missing, so he stood there straight, forgetting to practice swords.

I don't know how long later, I saw a petite figure faintly appearing in the snow curtain, wearing a white cloak, like a fluttering lotus flower.

Zhu Qiming grinned and hurriedly greeted him. "Why is my sister late today?"

"I entered the palace with my father, but I was stopped by Gonggong Jin on the way."

"Father-in-law Kim? So what's going on? ”

"It is said that a Japanese delegation suddenly entered Beijing, and when they entered the court, the court did not know the news, and the emperor was furious. Moreover, there was a troublesome figure in the mission, which gave the emperor a headache. ”

"Why did Grandpa Jin say this to Mr.!"

"Gonggong Jin said, I'm afraid that only you can come forward to help this matter."

How can I help? Zhu Qiming was surprised, thinking that Gonggong Jin was not looking for him openly, but Mr. Tuolu gave a message, and he definitely did not get the holy will, so he wanted to avoid suspicion.

Then, Gonggong Jin's move must be beneficial to Zhu Qiming, so he came to secretly communicate the news!